Wael Arafat, 28, is currently unable to walk but remains conscious and talking. The British-Palestinian has lost nearly 20kg since starting a hunger strike 50 days ago. He is demanding the UK government act to stop Israel's two-month-long bombardment of the Gaza Strip. "I know I might...

The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip has mounted to 18,412, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra said that 50,100 other people were injured in the Israeli onslaught. “Some 326,000 cases of...

Israeli settlers on Monday confronted olive pickers in the town of Aqraba, southern Nablus, firing live rounds to intimidate and force them to leave their lands, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported. Israeli occupation forces and settlers have carried out a total of 333 attacks against...

Six civilians were killed and 25 others wounded on Saturday in Syrian army bombardment of the country's last major rebel bastion, a war monitor said. "Regime forces directly targeted residential areas of the city of Idlib," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding that industrial...